Word: method
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Method, also to be used when driving cars or writing letters: learn to let the air out of the lungs in small proportions by momentarily tensing muscles around navel as each portion is exhaled...
...hangover, I take nothing for it; I want to know how hung over I am." Her forthright opinions are famed among her friends. Some samples: ¶ On Catholicism: "I believe every word." ¶On money: "I'll never sacrifice myself on the altar of poverty." ¶On "Method" acting: "Ridiculous. It isn't important what you feel; it's what the audience feels that counts." ¶ On the Irish: "We're pragmatic. We say to the English and Americans, 'All right, if you're fools enough to believe all this nonsense about...
...Method A Mystery...
...grant alloted to Brown University is "of no consequence to us," said President Keeney, who added, "it is a mystery why the government chose this method of distrbution...
This week, at the New York meeting of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, Engineer Harold W. Ritchey of Thiokol Chemical Corp. explained some of the tricks that are used to make solid rockets behave. One method, he said, is to put vanes in the gas jet. When their angles are changed, they deflect the stream of gas like a rudder. This system was used on the German wartime V2, but the vanes add a lot of drag, and they must be made of highly heat-resistant material if they are to last even the few minutes needed to do their...